As with the last shuttle mission making its re-entry into the Earth’s atmosphere yesterday, I am re-entering the world of healthcare IT after an extended family vacation in the wilds of Alaska. No, I did not see John Halamka up there, it is after all a VERY BIG state, but I did get the chance [...]
Posts Tagged ‘WebMD’
Re-entry into Healthcare
Posted in consumer health, EHR, mHealth, PHR, tagged Cerner, FDA, meaningful use, mHealth, ONC, Stage 2, WebMD on July 21, 2011 | 1 Comment »
What do WebMD’s Q3 Numbers Tell Us?
Posted in consumer health, Dossia, Google Health, HealthVault, PHR, tagged BCBS-MA, employer, iPhone, payer, WebMD on November 4, 2010 | 4 Comments »
Yesterday, the big 800lb gorilla in the PHR market, WebMD announced 3rd quarter earnings that were quite mixed. While its public portal business continues to see strong growth in uniques (now over 83M visitors/month) and advertising revenues that grew 26%, its private portal business continues to produce lackluster results, with flat revenue and holding steady [...]
WebMD’s Private Portal Business Continues Slide
Posted in PHR, tagged consumer health, PHR, WebMD on May 4, 2010 | 4 Comments »
WebMD announced first quarter earnings today that showed continued lackluster results for their “Private Portal” division, slipping roughly 5% year over year from $23M to $21.8M. Now one could argue that the overall decline in employment due to the recession is to blame for the drop in clients from 134 to 131 in Q1-2010, but [...]
The PHR Risk: Revolution Health Axes PHR
Posted in PHR, consumer health, Google Health, HealthVault, tagged Everyday Health, Revolution Health, WebMD on January 27, 2010 | 8 Comments »
Revolution Health is closing down its Personal Health Record (PHR) service at the end of February. Below is the email sent to those with a Revolution Health PHR account. Thank you for being a loyal user of the Revolution Health Personal Health Record. Unfortunately we will be discontinuing this service as of the end of [...]
Too Many Content Plays = Unsustainable
Posted in consumer health, tagged Healia, Health 2.0, Healthline, WebMD on April 23, 2009 | 8 Comments »
Here at the Health 2.0 conference and have heard far too many demos (really just pitches) from a multitude of Health 2.0 companies that are really nothing more than some form of glorified search engine. It is clear that very few, if any, of these companies will be around in five years as there is [...]
What’s In Store for 2009: Top Ten Trends & Forecast
Posted in consumer health, Dossia, eRx, Google Health, HIE, HIT, Microsoft, PHP, PHR, policy, RHIO, telehealth, tagged Continua, economy, Health 2.0, MediKeeper, mHealth, retail health, Walgreens, WebMD on December 29, 2008 | 4 Comments »
Maintaining a tradition among IT analyst firms, following is Chilmark Research’s forecast of Top Trends for 2009. While there is a significant amount of “crystal ball gazing” in any forecast, 2009 is particularly challenging due to an economy that has yet to stabilize and a new administration and re-invigorated Congress that seeks to “reform healthcare.” [...]
FDA Partners with WebMD to Distribute Content
Posted in consumer health, tagged FDA, WebMD on December 3, 2008 | 1 Comment »
Just received a PR from WebMD announcing a partnership with the FDA to distribute FDA content (consumer health news and alerts) via WebMD channels (both Internet and print). This is not too dissimilar to what the FDA is currently doing with Medem, though the Medem partnership is targeting physicians and is focused on providing specialty-specific [...]
United Health Jumps Into Consumer Fray
Posted in consumer health, PHR, tagged OptumHealth, United Health Group, WebMD, Yahoo Health on December 1, 2008 | 4 Comments »
Being the nation’s largest heatlhcare insurer, it was only a matter of time before United Health Group (UNH) jumped into the fray of providing a consumer-centric healthcare website, which they announced this morning, myOptumHealth.com. This follows similar moves by competitors CIGNA (finally coming on-board), Wellpoint (who seems to be adrift) and Aetna, (leader fo the [...]
